TURNAROUND: Boston Red Sox LOCK IN Chad Tracy as FULL-TIME Manager

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What's up, everyone? Welcome to another episode of Locked On Red Sox, your daily Boston Red Sox podcast. I'm your host, Gabby Maljanian, and today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. It's time to put your knowledge to the test with College Football Pick'Em from FanDuel. Download the FanDuel app and play College Football Pick'Em for free. Only on FanDuel. Hello, hello. Happy Wednesday. Welcome in to the show. We finally have the answer to a question that hasn't felt like much of a question for a while. Chad Tracy is officially the manager of the Boston Red Sox. No more interim tag. No waiting until the offseason. No managerial search. The Red Sox announced on Tuesday that Trace has signed a three-year contract through the 2029 season with a club option for 2030. And they didn't stop there. Craig Breslow is sticking around too. Boston exercised its club options on Breslow for 2029 and 2030, meaning the Red Sox are essentially committed to the Breslow-Tracy partnership for the foreseeable future. Both announcements tell us something pretty significant about how ownership views what happened this season. If you go back five months, Alex Cora had just been fired. The Red Sox were 10 and 17. Six coaches were gone and Chad Tracy was summoned from Worcester. Craig Breslow was facing enormous pressure after making one of the biggest decisions of his career. Then you fast forward to today. The Red Sox are going to the playoffs, Tracy has the permanent job, Breslow has additional years of security, and suddenly instead of talking about organizational instability, the Red Sox are now betting on continuity. So today I'm going to dive into why Tracy absolutely earned this opportunity, why the Breslow decision is a little more complicated, and then what these moves tell us about where the Red Sox are going next. So we have to start with Chad Tracy because this isn't really a surprise, but I'm glad the Red Sox didn't play games